Bed-rail.



- No. 202,370. Patented lune l0, i902.

E. G. LUNDQUIST.

B E D R A I L.

(Application led Mar. 3, 1902.)

(No Modl.)

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ERICK G. LUNDQUIST, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

BED-RAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming' part Of Letters :Patent N0. 702,370, dated June 10,1902.

Application iiled March 3, 1902. Serial No. 96,555. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known thatI, ERICE; G. LUNDoUIsT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented a new and useful Extension SideRail for Brass and Iron Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification. y

The object of my invention is to provide means to raise the side rail of a bed, and particularly of an iron or brass bed, in which the side rail is usually low, to prevent the covers of the bed from working off and falling on the iloor while the bed is being used, and also that the side of the bed may present a more attractive appearance after the bed is made and before it is used. I accomplish this object by means of the device herein described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a perspective View of an iron bedstead, showing my extension-rail in place thereon. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged sectional details of the adjustable end of my extensionrail. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the adjusting-strap. i

In the drawings, A represents my extension side rail. In Fig. lone of these extension-rails is shown in place en the bedstead. The rail which I have shown on the drawings can be placed indifferently on either side of the bed. Bis the adjustable head-block thereon, secured to the extension-rail by means of the binding-bolts C, which pass through a slot D in the adj usting-strap D, the curved end of which passes partly around the corner-post E of the bedstead and securely holds the eXtension-rail thereto. My extension-rail lits onto and above the side rail of the bedstead.

The adjusting-strap is clamped between the head-block and the rail in cavities `cut into each therefor and has a longitudinal movement therein. f j

When my extension-rails are placed on a bedstead, they will prevent the coverlets from sliding off onto the iioor, as is very apt to be the case with a brass or iron bedstead when the occupant is asleep thereon, often waking the occupant up, as he becomes uncovered thereby.

The usual length of this, the longest bed- `rail, is six feet one inch and the shortest five feet eleven and one-half inches, and it is to overcome this variation in length and to adapt `my extension-rail to any bedstead, I have provided means to adj ust my extension-rail as to length, as I have hereinbefore explained.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;-

A1. The combination with the bedstead of the supplementary extension-rail A provided with the head-block `B, adj ustably secured thereto; adjusting-straps D removably secured to said extension-rail, and adapted to partly surround the corner-posts of the bedstead and to hold the same,'in combination therewith.

2.. In a bedstead thecombination with the bedstead of an extension-rail A, the headblock B, adjustably secured thereon, adjusting-straps D interposed between the block and the rail and having a longitudinal movement therebetween, the strap being adapted to partly surround the bed-post and hold the rail and head-block 4in engagement therewith, andbinding-bolts C to hold the rail, the headblock and the adjusting-straps in frictional engagement, substantially as shown and described. l

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 22d day of February, 1902.

ERICK G.' LUNDQUIST.

Witnesses:

G. E. IIARPHAM, HENRY T. HAZARD. 

